A myriad of ducks waddle by a paddy in Thailand, three month old twin black panthers make their debut in Germany, Twilight actors Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone goof around at Comic Con and more in today’s daily brief.

A flock of ducks walk near a paddy field in Nakhonsawan province, north of Bangkok, Thailand. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)

Firefighting planes fetch water from the Beniares reservoir to fight a wildfire next to the Sierra Mariola Nature Park in Cocentaina near Alicante, Spain. (Heino Kalis/Reuters)

Two young Black Panther twins named Remaong (male) and Ferra (female, here in picture) are presented at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin. Their mother Angie gave birth to the twins on April 26, 2012 in Berlin. (David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)

Young gymnast Mo Yuxin (C), who broke her arm during a training, practice basic skills with other gymnasts at a juvenile gymnastics training base in Wuhan, Hubei province in China. (Stringer/Reuters)

Grandchildren of Korean War veterans take part in the 2012 UN Peace Camp for Youth at the South Korean army’s 3rd Division of Special Forces headquarters in Seoul. The South Korean government had invited the grandchildren of Korean War Veterans to the country where their grandfathers fought in 1950. Participants from 15 countries around the world participated in the week-long UN Peace Camp for Youth. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

Actors Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone attend the Movies On Demand lounge at Comic Con at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 12, 2012 in San Diego, California. (Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images for Movies on Demand)

A visitor takes a pictures while holding an umbrella in front of paper lanterns during the annual Mitama festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. About 3,000 paper lanterns are lit to comfort the souls of dead during the annual festival at the shrine where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

A three-days-old gorilla baby lies in the arm of its mother Rebecca at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany. (Alex Domanski/Reuters)

Hassan El Far, 27, performs his fire show at the Badium Sinai Arabic concert in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, Egypt, July 12, 2012. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)

A young truck driver carries a pack of Marlboro cigarettes in the front pocket of a torn shirt during the Iowa 80 truck stop’s 33rd Annual Truckers Jamboree in Walcott, Iowa on July 12, 2012. The Iowa 80, located along Interstate 80, is said to be the world’s largest truck stop. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

Residents remove green algae from a net on the beach in Qingdao, Shandong province in China, July 12, 2012. (China Daily/Reuters)

An Israeli soldier pulls the cape of a demonstrator dressed as a clown during a protest against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Maasarah near Bethlehem. (Musa Al-Shaer/AFP/Getty Images)

Young fans on horses wave to the pack with Overall leader’s yellow jersey, British Bradley Wiggins, riding in the 226 km and twelfth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and finishing in Annonay Davezieux, southeastern France. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)

Jack Ziebell of the Kangaroos shoulder charges Aaron Joseph of the Blues during the AFL Rd 16 game between North Melbourne and Carlton at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Indian railway track inspection staff walk along a suburban railway line during a sudden downpour in Mumbai, India.The June to September monsoon is described as the “economic lifeline” of India, which has a population of 1.2 billion and is one of the world’s leading producers of rice, sugar, wheat and cotton. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman holds a sign reading “No to Conga, damn it! Mi future is to be respected” as she takes part in a protest against the Conga mining project of US corporation Newmont, in Lima on July 12, 2012. The Peruvian General Confederation of Workers called for a “national day of protest” on Thursday, in solidarity with the demands of Cajamarca, where the Conga project plans to dry four lagoons to extract gold and copper from the subsoil. (Geraldo Caso/AFP/Getty Images)

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